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The fourth novel of Sasha Sokolov have been lost when the Greek house where it was written burned down in the second half the 1980s. Jacob M. Appel's first novel manuscript, Paste and Cover, was in the trunk of an automobile that was stolen in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1998. The vehicle was recovered, but the manuscript was not. [83]
A major part of antique Greek [1] [2] and Latin literature was lost during this period, and only a small number of works remained extant to the Early Modern Age. [3] Most of these works are available in Medieval copies, while very few original documents of antiquity were known preserved, until recent discoveries of papyri and parchments. [4]
The transmission of the Greek Classics to Latin Western Europe during the Middle Ages was a key factor in the development of intellectual life in Western Europe. [1] Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages, but as traffic to the East increased, so did Western scholarship.
The Stoic philosopher Chrysippus is attested to have written over 700 works, [49] all of them lost, with the exception of a few fragments quoted by other authors. [50] Segments of his works On Providence and Logical Questions were found among the papyri; [50] a third work of his may have been recovered from the charred rolls. [51]
The Theban Cycle (Greek: Θηβαϊκὸς Κύκλος) is a collection of four lost epics of ancient Greek literature which tells the mythological history of the Boeotian city of Thebes. [1] They were composed in dactylic hexameter verse and believed to be recorded between 750 and 500 BC.
Drinking bowl with scenes from the Aethiopis epic, Attic, c. 540 BC. The Aithiopis (/ iː ˈ θ aɪ ə p ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Αἰθιοπίς, romanized: Aithiopís), also spelled Aethiopis, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature.
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Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period , are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey , set in an idealized archaic past today identified as ...